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To paraphrase the immortal Harry Doyle, Voice of Chief Wahoo's Tribe, "In case you haven't noticed, and judging by the attendance, you haven't," Newt Gingrich and Jon Huntsman held a "debate" last night on the subject of foreign policy. Apparently, it was a calm and reasoned discussion by contemporary Republican standards, which means that the Jesustalk was at a minimum and nobody offered to bet anybody else $10,000 on anything. Of course, the whole event took place behind the invisibility screen that has surrounded Jon Huntsman's whole campaign, so it's hard to know what really happened. What is clear, though, is that Newt finally got the "Lincoln-Douglas debate" he's been asking for: two white men, one of them tall and slender, the other short and round, arguing at length in a debate that, for all the demonstrable impact it's going to have, might has well have taken place in 1858.